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to: AUKE REITSMA
from: TIM HUTZLER
date: 1998-02-12 19:15:00
subject: Re: Any Borland C++ 5 us

TH>Anyone have Borland 5.02 installed? They said a typical
AR>Yep. A few days ago that would have been nope ;-)
Have fun. I returned it. It's a nice package, but I don't need my
disk space dominated with this kind of FATware.
TH>instalation was 170Mb. I thought that was fat enough. I hit
TH>300Meg! This is way beyond fatware. I had to drop the 16-bit
AR>That's TYPICAL not FULL ;-)
AR>That's reasonable for a FULL install. Hopefully you use
AR>FAT32 or your cluster size cause a 'loss' of a few 100 meg
AR>more ...
Don't have FAT32. I bought an early vers of Win95 before they
switched. I don't know if any service pack has it, but I'm not
risking headaches trying to update.
TH>Also, when I compile for DOS, the DOS app runs *slow*. It is not
TH>like Borlands 3.0 compiler.
AR>Actually I haven't used it yet for DOS ...
TH>Who had developed any W95 apps?
AR>Trying and failing ...
Good luck with it, and best regards...
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